A Melbourne elementary school was locked down Friday morning because of a threat.

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Officials said Roy Allen Elementary School was locked down as a precaution. The lockdown was lifted at 12 p.m.

A Brevard County Public School spokeswoman said law enforcement handled the incident and that learning continued as normal.

Melbourne police said the incident happened because of misinformation about a biological parent that was going to forcibly take a child at the school.

The child, who is in foster car, said that she was going to run away and her siblings learned of this, but because of a language interpretation issue, the information was misinterpreted, according to police.

Investigators said no actual threat was made and that the child was where she needed to be.